I got up this morning to do a little downward dog in the family room, only to discover a little outward skunk wandering around on the deck.
Take note that this picture was taken BEHIND the safety of a glass door.
I flew up the stairs to snag Ava out of bed. Wake my sleeping 5 year old on purpose? Am I insane? I knew she’d love it though and I didn’t want her to miss it. She’d have been up shortly anyway. At least that’s what I’m telling myself.
Muggy but at least cool, I headed out this morning to run a comfortable 6.24 miles in 50 minutes. My legs felt pretty tired toward the end but nothing a little green juice couldn’t fix.
The star of today’s green sludge:
A beat up pear.
Thank you Heather for this fab idea!
Today’s concoction consisted a HUGE head of romain, cucumber, pear, lemon and ginger. Go ahead and call me a lettuce vampire, I love drinking the blood of plants!
It’s been one of those days.
What exactly does that sign mean you ask? No yelling.
Now don’t get me wrong, I try not to yell. But you might say that I’ve been known to raise my voice. Sometimes I yell more than or louder than I’d like to admit. But I promise that I DO TRY not to yell. Some days I’m more successful than others.
Inspiration for today’s lunch came from a handful of sources.
A few weeks ago, Gena from Choosing Raw posted about using Dulse, a seaweed that is supposed to be reminiscent of bacon. It can be a great way to make a raw/vegetarian BLT. Heather mentioned it in comment yesterday too and it reminded me I had a package of it in my cupboard.
I looked for this at a couple of health food stores to no avail. Since it’s seaweed and therefore a plant, I was expecting to find it in produce. I finally asked and they directed me to the fish food sushi section.
Day Numero Four with no early morning work out. Zak gets home tonight. Hallelujah.
My morning green lemonade in a tall, tall glass.
Egads you can’t even tell how tall that glass is when it sinks into the grass! Someone write “Mow Lawn” on the to do list.
OK, OK, in truth the grass just grows really tall in that one spot and worked well for a reference to an old favorite. Don’t go calling the housing association on me just yet.
Today’s homeschooling adventure was just that – quite the adventure!
We met up with a bunch of homeschooling families today for a Fossil Walk.
We took a 10 minute hike through this creek bed to make our way to the dig site.
Holy bedrock.
This was the first fossil we found, which explains why I took a picture of it. We “think” this was a part of a trilobite – an extinct marine creature that is only a mere 380 million years old. Finding pieces of a trilobite is common, finding a trilobite perfectly in tact is rare and would score you major archeology nerd points. No one hit the fossil jackpot today, but we had fun trying.
It rained all morning, we played in the rain anyway because ______.
a. we can
b. we felt too dry
c. it was an easy way to wash their coats
We made plans to beat the rainy day blahs and meet up with some friends after _______.
a. hell froze over
b. I made a curried chick pea sandwich on toasted Ezekiel bread with a zucchini and spinach salad on the side for lunch
c. they completed an obstacle course
A totally soggy morning.
How convenient I’d planned for today to be a rest day.
Even the cats are taking it easy. Minus a little neck biting.
Maxine was up early. Only to fall back to sleep.
A leisurely breakfast cookie for me.
And coffee.
Time to lace up my shoes and get to work around this house. I can’t help but be reminded of my new favorite quote as I dig down to find the motivation to get moving:
My fruit and juice breakfast wore off by about 10:30, so I made a bowl of banana and chocolate oatbran before we headed out on today’s adventure.
Cooked on the stove with water and chocolate almond milk and cocoa powder. Topped with sliced banana, almond butter and coconut.
I threw a bunch of food into our lunch bag and off we went to meet some friends at the beach.
We played in the water.
We played in the sand.
I’m pretty sure taking a break for lunch was my idea.
Just recently I told Ava that when I was pregnant with her, I wanted to name her Grace. Daddy wasn’t crazy about that name, and we eventually agreed on Ava. I also told her that I had first wanted Maxine to be named Leah, but that name was vetoed too.
Ava is often correcting me when I call her Ava saying “No, my name is _______”. Where _______ might be Zaza, Zandrea, Zander, Priscilla, and more recently, Leah. All sorts of stuffed cats, ponies and Barbies have recently taken on the name Leah as well.
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